Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1887-04-23

twenty foot TO the mlied, an even IN
low water went down by thar, on its
way to the river three miled below. Ike
a peeled kemlock log down 3 roll way,
an thar she were, arter all dem rains,
dry and empty from bank 10 hank.
Peleg. | were skeert, an TUX TO trem-
bin wuss tn a hungry dog at day
light on Il frosty morniu. lthort the
world were comm 10 an end right thar
and then. Poorly oon | got stiddy
enough to look mp the creek, an then
were skeert wu>sn ever, fer bout q
quarter Of a miled away, in that diret-
ton, thar were the creek agoin up
stream ez fast ez 1t could tear, Coin
right up that big grade O. twenty foot
to the miled, Peleg. ike a train o
keers, Wen | see that l ii>t Hoped
right down and waited fer the arth-
quakes and Gabriel to come tollerin'
along. acrackjn' an atootin'. l laid
thar aw'ile, but they didn't neither on
EN- come, an the creek KEEP acllmhin'
up to ardsi il headwater> zititdb ben sent
Ter TO come back hum an hadn't no
time to spare gettin' thar. II were
moyin' back'aris ins a flood m0ren
thirty foot high, ez nigh ez l could
ledge from seem the gable cend Of ii,
and pooty soon | noticed til IN were
a heap o. commotion on the edge Of ii.
wall, says 70 myself, gittin' up
onter my feet, til can't be no,hin 10
hurt a Teller in a feed th,t,s doln, il
best te run away from him Ike that,
say. l, an 80 | guess I'll quit waitin'
for Gabr'el an the earthquakes, says
l, an II jist start arter that creek an
see WAITS a ailin' on it to make it 20
an cut up that way SAYS |.
80 away l dug ez tight ez my legs'd
carry me, but the creek had got such a
start O me that it tuck me a good half
hour fore l ketched up with it. An
ez o o ez l did ketch up with it, my
son, | see to wunst wat We're ailin' on
it. Ye must know, to cit the hang o
tbi. pelea. th't sucker, starts fer the
oraek. nm tho fr.th igb water mt comes
in the .pripq, an mt they gether to-
oetber by the boat load at the mouths
Of creek, waitin' fer the flood th't tells
ON ,hinos i ready fer 'pm No the
crock an then M they 90. That had
hen an onusuJ Good season for suckers
to winter over in. an they had waxed
an crowd fat, an gethered in such
uncommon big crowds. tb't wen they
started in at the mouth O. Sloplick
creek that ninth day o. April, they lest
damned tba hull durn course a. the
stre,m. an fer time it had been min
an tucL ez to witch Il hef ia stnn. the
rraot or tha suckers. Butin Them DAYS
su,Lors b,d vim an nr.h in ON
These fellers at the mouth o. Sloplicb
bod s+a,.,od to al, nm that crock an
'twan', tbair fault h Gosh. if /;
cou1d,', frrnish u,tar enourh wifi
all tho rai, 49, hod for , wook n.s+
fo. ,or 70 wiroIo nm or. co thov tic mn
,boir shouldors IN Tho wbool an, al 4;
thov wont an, showed the rusbin' foo,
Of 81, slonlick ricbt hack with 'em
nilin, il mn in a wall thirty foot biob
an, lann;n, hor . movin, hack so fast
ytoen o. tbe or,Ie were M sb,
coulIp,t oft M footbolt an had 70 90
e. 90 oor,.yo or,,v tbi,n woro iof
biah an, drv ab;nd that nnsbin, arm,
. ~, srckorS an, n,tur' in tbom mart
woro laoLiu, oroo,
, ..peleo. wen I ketchnd nm to tha
ro,roat;n0, c,eol no,b;n, could ho 500
on tbe f,ce q, tb,t hiob wall a. watc
Int snor,, ,n,t,il. ,n,6ns an, hool,
an, holI;oY -, .rctors Tbev was nil.
on ono ,nothnr from The he'd a I'll
-, orool r. tho to, y, tho flood nushi,
an, shown an crowdin' to keen I'll
, b,rl a ~ro,lin,. soc WAT the bul, hus
nnss meant 70 wunst. an I nitcbe
=. ,irht in 70 do somo,o, the ~tolIost snrk,
. tsLin' ~, wore over heerd on alon
o Slonlick creek, I cbucked away m
4 no,n ON, div irter th,t h,nl
. suclors an iist won't to mini,
j.. 6sh hr Tho ION Thov Lon, ~
+, on a dead RIM to keen IN with 'cr
= tboy w,s h'i.tin' that stream ,
4 I'M ca fast, lint I cr,hhod an, claw,
a ,iah+ an, loft an, ,brow,d snclors ~
/ on tho hank Nv tbe v,ron load
strunn suckers oio,g ,bo hanks for
milod on, still tbo good wont a rolli
un lin "a oosy ., niclin, nm .+;cI
Tho ~hoadwotors q, Slonlicl crook W
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